it’s a give away at the Cart before the Horse website!

one of my fav places to check out each week is

http://thecartbeforethehorse.blogspot.com/

So much eye candy and the stories about the dolls are so entertaining.

It’s the 200^th post and that means a huge giveaway! Doesn’t get any better than that <g>

So go post a comment over there and see if you win the doll (sooo cute) or the patterns (wonderful!)– both are beyond Fab!

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craftster – art quilt swap

this was a bunch of fun and I hope there is a round two at some point.
I want to do more of these when I can – perhaps as Christmas Presents – well it’s nearly Aug – guess I had best start thinking on that more like NOW any ways here is what I got from RetroRose – it’s so lovely – such bright beautiful colors of purples and golds – the gold thread just sets it all off wonderfully well.

And here is what I sent to her – she wanted to use it as a cover for her monitor at night and be able to hang it during the day – so it’s more lightweight than most art quilts would be for that reason – I went with a whimsy and color theme  (the color of her art studio) I’ve been drawing ladies with tree’s for hair a few times now so thought it would look rather cool to have her just peeking up over the keyboard and to show more of the trees. I hand drew the face and colored it with prismamarkers which worked so much better than I thought it would – the fabric is the inkjet cotton fabric that you feed thru the printer – I left the paper backing on till I was finished to make it easier to draw – cut out tree trunks and circles for the tops of the trees and fused them all to the background fabric – the background fabric has a front, back and 3″ side to it so it fits nicely over the monitor and thank goodness it does fit machine sewed over the trunks, leaves and face – then added lot’s of seed beads to the circles for more movement  – left the circle edges raw so they would fray a bit to add to the movement of the leaves. I’m very pleased with how this turned out – it was a lot of work but well worth it 🙂

and a close up on the face

to see more details on both of our quilts go see RetroRose’s lovely blog at http://amys-creations.blogspot.com/  she also has better pic’s than I do <G>

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tim holtz

I’ve not kept up with his blog lately – he’s got lot’s of eye candy over that way 🙂

Tim holtz 12 tags of Christmas

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Day Three – this is from amyfaerie – how cool is this? So chunky and funky – I just love it – I love bracelets and this is a wonderful addition 🙂

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I won!!!

Muppin posted over at atcsforall a give a way at a bunch of blogs Wed this past week that Sew Mama Sew was putting on – one of the blogs I posted at picked me 🙂 I won a Lavender Rice Pack and Pin – sure could use that Lavender Rice pack today – woke up with a killer headache – yuck – and it’s a beautiful day – at 1:00 pm finally feel like I might make it to the store – got soooo much to do today – but had to post here first about the Lavender Rice pack and pin – so excited I won!! Thanks so much http://christyallbee.com/ for picking me
here is the post where I won – isn’t Hadley about the cutest baby ever

now I have to get some food and gift shopping done – not looking forward to fighting the crowds but can’t put it off any longer headache or no.

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blog jumping and a fabric shrine

found another cool site – love how she does her overlays on her collages and she does somthing I’ve thought about but haven’t gotten off my duff and tried – she prints out photo’s on old book pages – the blank aged ones at the front and back of books. cool look

www.michellecaplan.blogspot.com

My partner got her package in a swap over at Craftsters.org – this is one of the items I made for her – I like how it turned out – now to make one for me 🙂 it’s layers of fabric, charms and some wool roving for steam – thinking about another large one for hubby – something along the cowboy theme – maybe “a cowboy is only as good as his horse” and use a picture of his old horse CodyRed – still thinking on that one.

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Queen of the Hill

We got our first round bale of the season – Miss T Time had to show she was the Queen by being the only goat able to leap on top – the Nubians are on the back side as the Boers who are on the front side tend to be a bit pushie when it comes to food – Miss T Time quite enjoyed her self till the bale was eaten away – which happened within a week and a half. Now they are eating sqare bales in feeders till we get the next round bale.

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mushroom stuffies for a swap

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found this super cute tute over at http://lucykatecrafts.blogspot.com/2008/04/toadstool-tutorial.html

and made these guys for a swap over at atcsforall.com

things have been super busy at work and home so I’ve MIA lately on the blogging now I’ve got a whole backlog of stiff to post

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Collage a thon Part Two!

It’s time for The Amazing Two Part August Collage a Thon – Part Two! this time it runs a extra day 🙂  So head over and have some arty fun this weekend

http://www.atcsforall.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5512

 

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Collage a Thon – part one

having another collage a thon over at www.atcsforall.com – here is a couple I did this weekend – to see more check out my gallery over at atcsforall – not sure if I’ll have time for more – hopefully.

card one

card two

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